Indian Cricket

Indian board's attempted own-goal

Feb 25, 2013: Dileep Premachandran

Kenya

Kenya's team-building exercise worthwhile

Feb 25, 2013: Thomas Odoyo, Kenya’s vice-captain, told the Nation newspaper that the recent three-day team-building exercise at the Malewa River Lodge earlier in the month was most worthwhile.

Somerset

Johnson keen to stay with Somerset

Feb 25, 2013: Former England seamer Richard Johnson is keen to stay at Somerset after talks with Kent and his old club Middlesex.

Indian cricket

At Motera, Munaf’s home debut moment: ‘can I have a picture?’

Feb 25, 2013:

Australian cricket

Warne and Coldplay, Mick Jagger and the Ashes

Feb 25, 2013: “Whispers around the sport are Mick Jagger has been courted by series broadcaster Channel 9 to make a cameo appearance at at least one of the five Test matches between Australia and England,” reports the Daily Telegraph ’s Sydney Confidential.

Indian Cricket

Bindra gets bolshy over newspaper claim

Feb 25, 2013:

Middle order

Afridi must rediscover his boom boom

Feb 25, 2013: Shahid Afridi is as much of an enigma as he ever was

English cricket

Sack Fletcher? Patent rubbish

Feb 25, 2013:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and George Binoy at the 2006 Champions Trophy

Diwali aur naya saal mubarak

Feb 25, 2013: “Diwali aur naya saal Mubarak” is the one phrase you heard more than anything else in Ahmedabad when the cricket came around to the city the second time around in the Champions Trophy

Columns

Cronjegate raises its head again

Feb 25, 2013: Yet controversy is the food of the Indian media and without a word of warning it all started again with an article suggesting that Scotland Yard will now be called on to look back at the 1999 World Cup

Champions Trophy

How do you solve a problem like Harmison?

Feb 25, 2013: No single moment has summed up England's ineptitude in the Champions Trophy more excruciatingly than Steve Harmison's opening delivery to India's Virender Sehwag, writes Lawrence Booth in The Guardian

Champions Trophy

Hanging out in the hallways

Feb 25, 2013: Chris Gayle has been finding it difficult to sleep in Ahmedabad

Australian cricket

Border faces testing time against the women

Feb 25, 2013: Robert Craddock reports in The Courier-Mail about Allan Border having a net session against the Australian Women’s team in Brisbane.

Management

Boycott is half-right about Fletcher

Feb 25, 2013: Geoff Boycott has been sounding off about Duncan Fletcher, advising him to quit

Champions Trophy 2006

Boycott calls for Fletcher to go

Feb 25, 2013: Geoff Boycott has called on Duncan Fletcher to be sacked as England coach less than a month before the start of the Ashes.

Zimbabwe cricket

The fish rots from the head

Feb 25, 2013: Peter Roebuck has been among the most vocal critics of Zimbabwe Cricket in the last couple of years, but his syndicated column this weekend was hard-hitting even by his standards.

Kenya

Floodlit cricket arrives in Kenya

Feb 25, 2013: The first floodlit game of cricket in Kenya took place at Mombasa’s Jaffery Sports Club on October 7 where the club has installed new floodlights.

Champions Trophy 2006

Fighting fire with a flame-thrower

Feb 25, 2013: Fazeer Mohammed

English cricket

We have failed on all counts

Feb 25, 2013: Andrew Strauss, in his column for The Daily Telegraph , admitted that England’s defeat by Australia was disappointing but insisted they were in good spirits ahead of the Ashes.

Bermuda

Bermuda on World Cup standby

Feb 25, 2013: Bermuda is on stand-by as a possible World Cup host nation if any one of the seven venues which have been allocated matches fail to sign onto the Sunset Legislation by November 1.